Havre speech sees success in Chester

Press release

Editor’s note: This version corrects the grade level of Trinity Olsen.

Havre High School speech and debate took a smaller team to a smaller tournament Saturday, the CJI High School invitational in Chester, and its competitors did well.

Sophomore Trinity Olsen, competing in dramatic oral interpretation of literature at her second tournament, received some good marks from judges, including a second-place mark from one of the three finals judges, to end in third place at CJI.

Havre’s public forum debate teams, the second-year varsity team of senior Caitlynn “Corbyn” Ehry and junior Carinna Kline and the freshman first-year team of Paige Anderson and Lyvia Little, were the only teams in that event and went three rounds against each other.

Both sides received complimentary comments from judges, but the varsity team of Ehry and Kline went 3-0 to take first and Anderson and Little took second.

In Lincoln-Douglas debate, Havre’s three-debater squad and a talented debater from Simms had a round-robin competition.

Four-year varsity senior Paige Bertelsen went 3-0 to take first, while senior Sterling Shelton, a second-year debater, went 1-2 to take third and senior Justin Lickfold, competing in his fourth tournament for Havre, took fourth with an 0-3 finish.

Next on Havre’s schedule is an invitational tournament at East Helena Saturday.